#impersonation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #impersonation, aggregated by home.social.
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Phishing Landscape 2026 – Who were the Most-Phished Brands?
Phishing attacks take advantage of well-known brands (either in the phishing content or in the domain names used as part of phishing attacks. In this post, we show the brands that were most often impersonated, either in the content of the phishing attack, a URL, or as part of a domain name used in the phishing attack.
#dnsabuse #phishing #cybercrime #brand #fakesite #impersonation
https://interisle.substack.com/p/phishing-landscape-2026-who-were
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🤔 Does 🇸🇬Gov know Meta's #netprofit was US$170m/day?
Singapore gives #Meta deadline to fight #Facebook scams as US$776,400 fine looms
"Btw June 2024 & June 2025, MHA & #Singapore #Police Force (SPF) saw an increase in scammers exploiting F*book to perpetrate #impersonation #scams using videos or images of key #government office holders in fake #advertisements, accounts, profiles & biz pages. During tis period, SPF disrupted abt 2,000 such ads & #online monikers on F*book"
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3326788/singapore-gives-meta-deadline-fight-facebook-scams-us776400-fine-looms -
The final step of the #TwitterMigration is leaving the platform altogether.
How does one manage their #brand risk?
I have my #Twitter handle on slides, cards, and a host of other items that I've distributed during my academic career.
Once I leave Twitter (or get kicked out) and someone co-opts my username, how do I ensure that visitors know that the current owner of the username is no longer me? How does one manage #impersonation? Ideas?
